03/06/09

Soitec Group - Microelectronic Industry


Soitec is the world’s leading supplier of engineered substrates for advanced microelectronics. The Group produces a wide range of advanced materials, especially silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers based on its Smart Cut™ technology — the first high-volume application for this proprietary technology. SOI is currently seen as the platform of the future, paving the way to higher-performance, faster, and more economical chips.
Soitec currently produces over 80% of SOI wafers. Headquartered at Bernin in France, with two high-volume production units on site, Soitec also has offices in the US, Japan, and Taiwan, and a new production site is in the process of customer qualification in Singapore. Two other business units : Picogiga International (Les Ulis) and Tracit Technologies (Bernin). Picogiga delivers advanced substrates solutions, including III-V epiwafers and gallium nitride (GaN) wafers, to the compound material world for the manufacture of high-frequency electronics and other optoelectronic devices. Tracit, on the other hand, provides thin-film layer transfer technologies used to manufacture engineered substrates for power ICs and microsystems, as well as generic circuit transfer technology, Smart Stacking™ for applications such as image sensors and 3D integration. Shares for the Soitec Group are listed on Euronext Paris.
More information is available at www.soitec.com
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